Richard Woods

tragedy after tragedy - still the western media ( Time mag honorably excepted just now) utterly fails to reflect the magnitude of the atrocity

He has no idea what he’s talking about. British national debt soared because: We needed to borrow a ton of money after the Great Crash of 2008. Labour wanted to borrow more. We needed to borrow more to keep the economy alive during Covid. Labour wanted to borrow more. We needed to borrow more post-Ukraine invasion to subsidise fuel bills. Labour wanted to borrow more. There. Fixed it. If he wants to be PM he’ll need to get up to speed fast on such matters. At the moment he sounds totally out of his depth (and debt!).

Women have the right not to undress in front of men at work. Twenty years ago, that sentence would have been a statement of such obviousness that people would have laughed at you for saying it aloud. Now it's a matter for celebration. Congratulations, you heroines 🎉😘👏

🇮🇷 IRAN MASSACRE Estimates are 12,000-20,000 killed. Following is just the verified data as of Jan. 13: 97 forced confessions 1,134 severely injured 2,403 killed (12 children) 18,434 detained 🇺🇳 U.N. Human Rights Council reaction: 0 resolutions 0 investigations 0 urgent sessions

The BBC’s antisemitism training has gone so well that this week they described the intifadas as a “largely unarmed and popular uprising”. Over a thousand people were murdered by Palestinian terrorists in their intifadas (not including 7th October). Eventually al-Beeb added that “some have described the term as a call for violence against Jewish people”. Damn right — Palestinian terrorists use it as a call for violence against Jews. So do countless protestors today. It’s one of their main rallying cries. So the bbc antisemitism training is, as predicted, totally useless at dealing with their anti-Jewish bias and incitement. They’re responsible for whitewashing terrorism against Jews.

There is a moment after every massacre of Jews – after the Holocaust, after October 7, and now after Bondi Beach – when the truth reveals itself. Not in the bloodshed, but in who rushes forward to explain it away. After Jews were murdered at Bondi Beach for the crime of celebrating Hanukkah, that moment arrived almost immediately. Before the bodies were cold, Dale Vince asserted the real culprit was not the killers, but Israel. More precisely, he claimed that Benjamin Netanyahu "wants antisemitism to be a thing" and "acts to make it so." That statement is not careless. Not clumsy. It is ideological. It performs a very old trick: Jews are attacked, therefore Jews caused it. This was not offered as a policy argument after reflection. It was deployed immediately, in the aftermath of a massacre that left children dead. That timing matters. It tells you the purpose of the remark. Not to understand the crime, but to launder it morally. To move responsibility away from the men who pulled the trigger and onto the identity of the people they killed. Vince's later clarification made matters worse. To claim that "the biggest single cause" of antisemitism today is Israel's war in Gaza is not analysis. It's collective blame. It tells Jews everywhere that they are fair game for hatred and violence because of actions taken by a foreign government they may not support and do not control. That is not how moral reasoning works in any other context. It is reserved for Jews alone. Antisemitism did not begin with Netanyahu. It did not begin with Israel. It did not begin with Zionism. It existed long before any of them and has survived every explanation offered for it. To pretend otherwise is either wilful ignorance or deliberate deceit. What makes this episode truly damning is not just what was said, but who said it. Dale Vince is not a fringe agitator shouting from the margins. He is a major donor to the Labour Party. His money buys access, respectability, and silence. When someone so embedded in the political class feels comfortable reframing a massacre of Jews as a consequence of Jewish behaviour, it tells you something is badly wrong with the culture that surrounds him. This is how antisemitism now presents itself in polite society. Not as hatred, but as causation. Not "Jews are evil," but "Jews bring this on themselves." Not crude slurs, but moral narratives that make violence seem understandable, even logical. It is antisemitism with a vocabulary of compassion. And it always runs in one direction. No other group is told that attacks on them are the fault of their government. No other diaspora is treated as a moral hostage to a foreign state. Only Jews are subjected to this permanent conditionality: behave as we demand, or accept the consequences. That is why statements like Vince's matter. They do not merely comment on violence. They prepare the ground for it. They reassure the next murderer that his crime will be contextualised, explained, and quietly blamed on the victims. If the Labour leadership wishes to be taken seriously when it claims to oppose antisemitism, this cannot be waved away as a misunderstanding or an unfortunate turn of phrase. It is a test. Silence here is not neutrality. It is acquiescence. History is unambiguous on this point. When Jews are murdered and influential figures respond by blaming Jews, the problem is no longer extremism at the margins. It is moral collapse at the centre. Dale Vince did not pull the trigger at Bondi Beach. But by shifting blame away from the killers and onto the identity of the dead, he played his part in the culture that makes such killings possible. "What makes this episode truly damning is not just what was said, but who said it. Dale Vince is not a fringe agitator shouting from the margins. He is a major donor to the Labour Party. His money buys access, respectability, and silence."

Dale Vince justifies the atrocity in Australia and blames Israel for it. Should the taxpayer be giving this creature millions of pounds in grants?

Damning leaked memo reported in Telegraph on BBC bias on gender & sex: its suppression of gender critical perspectives, inaccurate reporting & failure to cover stories. A news organisation captured by minority groupthink totally out of line with the public it’s supposed to serve.